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I want to talk today about a recent decision of the UK High Court called King v Grundon. This was a defamation decision given extempore, which means an oral judgment given by the judge at the time – live, so to speak, or ‘off the cuff’. Such judgments are in the nature of doing immediate justice, but are persuasive only because of their ‘less thought out’ character.
This makes the case a bit obscure, but it has an interesting New Zealand connection and is useful as an example of where the law is going and where it might go here.

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Cheer, U. (2012) King v Grundon: The need for real and substantial harm in defamation..This citation is automatically generated and may be unreliable. Use as a guide only.

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18 - Law and Legal Studies::1801 - Law::180104 - Civil Law and Procedure